Is it of the Second Freshness? Read it and decide.


Getting Started: Review the reading list below and be ready to discuss the stories as assigned.

Work on creating the PowerPoint together; you may use GoogleDocs to create your Presentation. You will find the link to the left. I have already created the presentation and invited all of you to collaborate. Check your emails for invitations.

Pushkin:

Author Biography
  • Queen of Spades
  • The Shot (I will make copies and distribute)
  • The Snowstorm (I will make copies and distribute)
  • The Undertaker (I will make copies and distribute)
  • The Peasant Girl (I will make copies and distribute)
  • Selected other stories
  • Ruslan and Ludmila (skim)

Gogol:

  • The Overcoat (I will make copies and distribute)
  • Inspector General (skim synopsis; reading is optional)
  • The Nose

Chekhov:

Tolstoy:

  • God Sees the Truth But Waits (copy)
  • Alyosha the Pot (copy)
  • Love (copy)
  • Prisoner of the Caucuses (copy)
  • selected works (TBA)

Kafka:

  • Metamorphosis (See wikipedia and review the synopsis)
  • selected works (copies)

Bunin:

Mann:

  • Little Herr Friedemann (copies)
  • Tristan (copies)
  • Death in Venice (borrow book or ask for copies)

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche:

  • Lectures (video lecture/copies)
  • Discussion

Selected Literary Works




Foreign Films:

  • Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila (DVD; excerpts)
  • Bulgakov: Master and Margarita (DVD; Russian with English subtitles/selected episodes from Russian mini-series)
  • Krzysztof Kieslowski: Three Color's Trilogy: Blue, White, and Red (French and Polish with English subtitles)
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Amélie (French with English subtitles)
  • Selected Works (TBA)